Main entry:

Bouillon, Jean Paul.

Title & Author:

Art deco, 1903-1940 / by Jean-Paul Bouillon.

Publication:

[Geneva, Switzerland] : Skira ; New York : Rizzoli, 1989.

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Le journal de l'art deco.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index.
One moment more of happiness -- The world of art -- 1. From art nouveau to art deco 1903-1907 -- Decorative purism -- The Wiener Werkstätte -- The revenge of ornament -- 2. Vienna and its environs 1907-1914 -- Hoffman : new foundations -- The second manner of the Wiener Werkstätte -- From Vienna to Paris -- And so here are flowers -- 3. Towards a new decorative order 1907-1914 -- An avant-garde of ornament -- Architecture and its decoration -- Fashion into art -- Time at a standstill -- 4. Art versus utopia 1914-1925 -- The return of order -- Vienna : elsewhere -- Paris : the countercurrent -- Here and now -- 5. The dawn of the modern 1914-1925 -- A well-tempered cubism -- From the grey of night -- Between past and present -- Decoration : clarifying the issue -- 6. Paris 1925 : modernity versus modernism -- The art of the contemporaries -- The art of the moderns -- Ornament and abstraction -- 7. The two ways of art deco 1925-1929 -- The ornamental tradition -- Decorative abstraction -- The secret of happiness -- 8. Surmounting the crash 1929-1940 -- The abstract paradise -- From one exhibition to another -- The American dream -- Farewell to decoration.

Summary:

Art Deco owed much of its initial popularity to the great Internation Exhibition of Decorative Arts held in Paris in 1925. But it is a mistake to suppose that it is something typically French, peculiar to the 1920s and 30s, and confined to the minor arts of decoration like jewelry and furniture. None of this is true. The modern decorative art that goes by the name of Art Deco is a much bigger movement, international in scope and reaching back to the opening years of the twentieth century. This book is the first to demonstrate its true scope, as an art movement overlapping with Art Nouveau and carrying on where it left off. --jacket.

ISBN:

0847809889 (Rizzoli)
9780847809882 (Rizzoli)

Subject:

Art deco.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art déco.
Art 20e siècle.
Art Deco.
Art, Modern

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 48637
Call No.: ID:89-B7686
Status: Available